When someone does something deceitful to you, you forgive them, and they take your kindness as a weakness and think they have the upper hand. Now you turn around and do the exact same thing to them, but they never see it coming because they thought you were weak! Gotcha.

Mike made plans with me, later confirmed the plans, seemed really excited about everything and called two hours before to cancel, turns out he had no means to keep the date from the start. I laughed it off, accepted another date and flip the script, this time I no-showed for the date.

When two individuals have certain roles in a relationship, and once separated for a while, become more like the other person than who they used to be.

He was such a drunk addict always wanting to party, telling me I didn’t need to worry about book smarts because I needed to gain street smarts. Then he went to jail and I got drunk and partied, whiled he studied books in his cell. Now that he’s out I’m addicted and he’s telling me all he learned from his books, and about getting high on life. Why did we flip the script?